The Late Show with Stephen Colbert live subscriber count
@colbertlateshow10,764,379
Estimated+468/day
Growth rate derived from this channel’s exact view growth. The dimmed digits are within ±23.2K and narrow as we watch.
- Last verified
- 10,700,000
- Last read
- 6m ago
- Total views
- 11.17B
- Videos
- 12,606
YouTube publishes subscriber counts rounded to three significant figures, so the exact figure is never public. The number above is projected from our own recorded readings; the badge tells you which kind of number you are looking at, and the methodology page explains how it is worked out.
Understanding these numbers
- What YouTube’s subscriber rounding hidesPublic counts are rounded to three significant figures. On a large channel that conceals a hundred thousand people — and it is why no live counter anywhere is showing you a measurement.
- Why no two live subscriber counters agreeOpen three counters on one channel and get three numbers. Where the divergence comes from, and how to tell a careful estimate from a decorated guess.
- How to read a growth projectionA projection is a conditional statement dressed as a fact. What the number claims, why the range matters more, and the four ways these forecasts reliably fail.
- What a subscriber count doesn’t tell youThe most quoted number on YouTube is one of the least informative. What it omits, and which public figures describe a channel better.
Subscriber and view figures originate from the YouTube Data API and remain the property of their respective owners. Growth rates, projections, milestone estimates and written analysis are LiveCount’s own work, derived from readings we record ourselves. LiveCount is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to YouTube or Google.
